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Spliced Chapter 26: Superior Technology

Location: Barron rock

Date: 21st of March 2272

Time: 1503

(Jake's P.O.V)

The energy this thing produced was mind-boggling I think the hairs on my neck are standing up. The design looked very futuristic and it was capable of fitting into a suitcase. Very impressive dad. A sudden hiss brought me back to the situation at hand.

Surrounded by aliens with a superweapon in my arms I was about to get myself ready but one already charged at me. Reacting on instinct I kicked it into the roof before another one tried to charge me, I made swiss cheese out of it with my tail. The situation seemed to be in their favour when a barrage of them came full force at me.

So with a friend in danger of being caught in the crossfire, I brought the weapon I held onto up to my shoulder and aimed it in the direction of my enemies. Not wasting a second I pulled the trigger.

'BBBZZZZTTTTUUUU!' Was the unusual sound it made, I could hardly care about the sound as the entire row of aliens had just being vaporized in front of my eyes upon contact with the beam of death. Despite this, the entire group of Xeno descended upon us. I fired at as many as I could as if to crap all over my luck the gun overheated leaving me to get tackled to the ground.

The bug hissed in my face making me growl in response. It opened its mouth as if to bite me with its inner jaw intent on making this quick, but I was quicker. The moment it shot out of its head I grabbed it, the beast flailed wildly trying to escape my response was ripping it out of its skull. I climbed off me vomiting acidic blood on the floor I put it out of its misery by punching its head so hard it caved in.

"GET OFF ME!" I turned to see Kayleb being dragged away, like hell they were turning him into a cocoon.

"HHHHIIIISSSS!" I screeched loudly as I pounced decapitating the first xenomorph before spinning with my claws extended removing the face of the second. Seven remained as they ran towards us. Two pounced at me, I grabbed them both by the neck a smashed them onto the ground. The world slowed down as four came running at me my tail pierced the top of the first ones head as I stabbed him through the jaw. With my elbow spike, I stabbed the next in the temple. The third one I front flipped turning his head into minced meat with my foot and the fourth I removed one of his back legs grabbing his tail and throwing him at the fifth one. The world caught up and the weapon finally cooled down enough for me to dispose of the last two.

I huffed tiredly and placed the weapon on my back and walked back to Kayleb who had a look of awe on his face. "How did… When did...What the hell did you just do?!" I laughed at his reaction. "That happened so fast I barely saw anything except the aftermath." I carried him outside.

"Well let's just say while I've been gone I've developed a couple enhanced abilities like back their when I moved so fast you didn't see it." I activated a beacon. "I'll go a bit more into detail later but right now I'm gonna get you off this Rock." The dropship appeared.

"Jake, what about you?" I carefully put him on the ship with dug.

"Well the others are still here and I can't leave them here." He sighed at that.

"You should really stop doing things by yourself you're allowed to ask for help ya know?"

"Why do you think I rescuing you guys, If I'm being on a team it's definitely gonna be yours."

He looked shocked at this before laughing. "Should have expected that, well go on then I'm expecting a big talk from you when you get back." I nodded and turned running on all fours back to the rig.

"Dad where am I heading?" I looked at my radar.

"Head east there's one on an outlook that's attracting a lot of attention." I gave him an ok before running up the structure dashing in between small gaps and leaping to other structures I headed to the general direction of the SOS signal. Soon I started following a different sound, the sound of gunfire.

I slithered into vents trying not to cause more commotion than necessary. I eventually I found an opening what I saw was a single figure with two pistols firing ceaselessly at the surrounding aliens but they were gaining on her. It didn't take me long to realise it was Ruby, with her blue skin and white hair it wasn't hard to figure out. She was standing on the edge of the dock with the afternoon sun glistening off her she sweated profusely, she looked like she would go into cardiac arrest if something isn't done. Out of ammo she then started doing something that made me respect her a lot more, she extended her claws and proceeded to beat the crap out of the aliens closest to her.

But she was becoming overwhelmed I could see it. I climbed on the wall running to her aid as she was beginning to collapse under her own exhaustion and the aliens were beginning to close in on her. I jumped into the middle of the crowd and landed on an alien with my fist thrown at full force crushing the alien underneath my force. I stood up and spun arms extended and tail wiping around knocking every Xeno five feet back.

I quickly pulled the gun off my back and basted everything around me. The weapon had overheated again but most of the aliens had been destroyed and the others had run off to regroup or something. With that out of the way, I bent down to Ruby.

She looked amazing. I laughed a little because she looked a little taller than Kayleb her skin seemed to have darkened a bit, her face had a great jawline and her hair was tied in the most epic ponytail I've ever seen, braided Viking style. She had an hourglass figure and rather noticeable bust….Ok, it's official I really am sixteen. But she also had several injuries and was breathing badly. "Ruby? Ruby are you alright? Talk to me." Her eyes fluttered a bit I guess she couldn't see me clearly, her vision must have focused because her eyes suddenly widened.

"Can't be...Jake?" I nodded at her. I wasn't expecting her next move as she hooked me one on the cheek. "YOU ASSHOLE! Where have you been all this time?! I don't care what happened to make you run off, we thought you were dead, dickhead!" She then pulled me into a bone-crushing hug I had to hug her back.

"I'm sorry. But I promise you I'm not going anywhere, I'm gonna start making it up to you by getting you to a safer place." At this moment three xenomorphs appeared in front of me and judging by their serrated heads they were warriors. "One preferably not here. You've had a hard time let me take care of this." I stood up slowly but she grabbed my elongated foot.

"You sure you can do this?" I looked down smirked and nodded at her.

"Sure just sit back and relax, trust me you're gonna love this," I spoke in a cocky voice making her laugh as I walked forward. The three instantly swarmed me, the gun was still cooling down and I didn't have enough time or stamina to stay in my fastest state. The one in the middle charged at me with a flying claw attack which I grabbed its arm and flip it over on its back the other two tried flanking me but I grabbed both of them by the neck lifted them and slammed them together.

Climbing to their feet they were now really pissed as they got into a new formation and ready for anything, I place my claws in front of me and waited for them to approach. The first one jumped in the air and came down with all claws at me, I lifted my arms to block just as a second one shoved its claws into my stomach not piercing but making an impact. This made me hunch and the one above landed on me and the third one joined the others in wailing on me. I wasn't having any of it, crossing my arms I snapped them open nocking two of them back. I stood up and headbutted the one in front of me to the ground, I wrapped my arm around its neck picked it up them slammed it onto the ground with a crack.

The other two charged at me again. I axe kicked one to the side and elbowed the other one to the side. "RAAAHHH!" The one I elbowed charged at me but I got to him first slashing my claws left to right, I heard the one I kicked coming up behind me, I quickly uppercutted the one in front of me sending him flying.

"Rraaggggghhh" I wiped my tail around slashing the alien across the face but then following up with a barrage of blows and then ending it with a vertical slice of my tail. The alien slowly peeled apart from top to bottom a flopping to the ground. However, the last one got the drop on me sinking its teeth into my neck muscles ripping a good chunk out before stabbing me with its tail through my stomach. "RAAH!" I pushed him off me and quickly stood up the beast actually had the nerve to attack me again which made me growl at it, it seemed to hesitate for a moment before charging at me.

I backhanded it as hard as I could breaking its jaw and knocking it to the ground, but I thought it would be reasonable to get back at it for taking a bite out of me. Grabbing the shoulder I opened my mouth and a shot my tongue into the top of its head. It spasmed a bit before going limp, I then dropped the corrosive bag of acid to burn itself away.

I turned to Ruby who was looking at me I sighed and wiped my mouth. "Sorry I didn't mean to do that in front of you, I'll make an effort to stop doing it in the future." She shook her head.

"No, it's not that, ok maybe a little, it was just watching you fight it was like watching a combination of marine combat moves and alien savagery, I think it's inventive." I smile at that and activated a beacon. "Still though if the inner jaw thing is a main attack for you, highly recommend brushing for twice as long." I smiled at her words and walked up to her.

"Don't worry it's not something I do often and to be honest it is purely an instinct that drives me to do that." She smiled then put her hand on my chest and giggled a bit.

"You really do have the amour of a xenomorph, but it's good to see you still Jake the boy who annoys us with talks about architecture." I laughed with her.

"Well since I've been like this I've discovered a lot of hidden things about myself, that I would be keen to show you later but right now I want you safe."

"Dwah I knew you loved me."

We laughed as she got onto the ship with Kayleb and they hugged the moment they saw each other. "It's good to see you're back Jake, find Charlotte then get your ass back here got it." I gave her the thumbs up and ran back to the rig.

"Jake I have to say some people up here including me are becoming a little disturbed at your tactics." My dad spoke.

"Well as much as your weapon is powerful it takes a while to charge and the last few years I've trained myself to use all the weapons at my disposal, though I'll make an effort against using my tongue. Anyway, where's the last two?"

"There at the bottom of the rig. There is an elevator shaft that you can go down, I have to ask how you don't get a headache while transitioning between walls all the time."

"Lots of practice I guess." I ran over to the middle of the structure finding the gates. "Ok haven't done this in a while I'm sure it'll work though." With that, I slammed my head on the gate before forcing it open.

"JAKE! What the hell did you do that for?" Dad yelled at me making me cringe.

"Sorry I found out I could do this in a fit of rage since then I found I'm the best at headbutting someone," I smirked and began climbing headfirst straight down.

"I would get into an argument but honestly this is like watching a rollercoaster video and I'm not feeling well now." I laughed at his comment and continued climbing. It was five minutes until I finally found the bottom with an elevator there. I climbed through it before walking out the gate to a scene with xenomorph material everywhere without any real coordination.

"God this place looks like it was made in five seconds, I would make something that looks intimidating with a bit of a palace look that would really make anything think twice about coming in."

"We, unlike these bugs you can't produce this stuff to make it Jake." That made me stop. I looked at the ground wondering if I should tell him if I can actually do this. Unfortunately, my actions spoke for me. "Oh, a Jake I didn't mean any offence I just didn't think you'd be capable of doing that."

"It's fine, to be honest, I was a little excited when I found out I could do it. It made me feel like I could make my own structures out of easily accessible material, back on Uproar I even made my own house. Only after a while, it started to seem a bit wired even though no one could judge me for doing it, it started to feel a bit alien to me. Soon I left the house since I never felt at home and I never did it again."

"Well don't feel too bad about it, and hey if you wanna do it again I would like to see your architecture skills you always brag about." This made me stop.

"Really? You wanna see something I can make?"

"Of course. I know I wasn't showing you enough attention when you were younger to the point of neglection. I may not show it but I want to be apart of your life and with the footage of this prototype weapon I may be set for life and make up for not being there for you, what do ya say." I smiled as a single tear fell from my face.

"I would like that a lot. Dad."

"Good well back to the mission the dots have separated the first ones coming up." Walking around the corner I found the guy that had joined the team, covered in Xeno spit and stuck to a wall. Walking forward he soon laid eyes on me full of hatred.

"What the hell are you, the Xeno that eats what's left of cocoons." Oh boy.

"Umm… gross and no I'm here to rescue you my names, Jacob Kelly."

"Kelly? You mean like the scientist on ares?" I nodded. "Like hell, he told me his son died or went missing one or the other, and last I checked he was a human unless he has a fetish for Xenomorphs which would explain you." Ok, this guy is definitely not on my friends' list.

"You know I don't have to help you I can just leave you here unless you've been impregnated in that case I'd have no choice." He looked at me with a scowl and finally swallowed his pride.

"Fine, just get me down from here." I guess that's as close as I'm getting to please, walking up to him I tore off the binds and pulled him out of the cement-like mixture by his arms. "Cool, now I'm getting outta here." I grabbed him before he ran off.

"What about Charlotte aren't you gonna help me find her." He tried to get out of my iron grip which made me squeeze harder.

"AH! No, I don't know where she is. She's probably dead by now and I don't want to get impregnated by a facehugger." Having enough of him I threw a beacon at him that hit him in the chest.

"If you're not going to help, go up to the surface and activate the beacon it'll get you off this rock and outta my sight." He huffed and turned to walk away.

I continued on walking until I found a staircase that leads straight to the final beacon which made me halt. "Jake?"

"No it's fine it's just I'm not sure about seeing her again."

"You know she tells me every day that she wishes she was stronger that day. She wished that she had the courage to be there for you, and because of that she became ghostlike to the point I'm not sure I even know who she is anymore." Damien spoke through suddenly. "I'm hoping maybe you could bring her back to who she used to be." I inhaled deeply hoping I could make things right with her.

I walked up the stairs making my way into a massive area with the Xeno material everywhere. I looked around at the unorganised mess looking for anyone or anything. I soon got to the end of the room, my tail twitching with desperation on what to do if I find her, or what to do If I don't find her. But at the end of the room, I saw someone with there eyes close holding its chest, as I got closer I began to recognise this person.

It was a girl with an hourglass figure a face that looked like it was carved by angels out of marble. If she was standing she looked like she would stand somewhere over six feet. Her hair was parted in the middle and came down to her shoulders shining a midnight black, that draped over her breast, I shook my head stupid hormones. She was lying on the floor and looked like she was in pain. I walked up to her and she seemed to shrink into a smaller ball. "Charlotte?"

"HHHHHIIIIISSSSS!"

I looked straight up just in time to see a massive shadow crash down in front of me. It stood up to its full height. The Xenomorph stood twelve feet tall and had a crown of a head with a very armoured and weaponized form. I got ready to fight it.

"Jake get out of there!"

"No, not without Charlotte."

"Jake you're crazy that is a praetorian as in the level of xenomorph just below the queen."

"So what I don't care if it is the emperor I'm getting Charlotte out of here." With that, I charged at the beast jumping straight at its head. I was instantly backhanded into a wall taking a quick breath I got back on my feet and charged at it, using my stamina I slowed the world down and got in close delivering a supersonic punch to the chest. This only knocked it back a bit and I was forced to come out of my speeding state. I wasted no time launching as many attacks as I could on it before it recovered.

When it did it hissed and swiped at me. Being more prepared I crossed my arms in a block to weaken the impact, I still felt it though. I counted when it threw a piercing strike, pushing the blow aside I shoved my spiked elbow into its skull, I then backflipped kicking its jaw up then tackling it to the ground with the force of a freight train.

I sank my teeth into its neck and took a large chunk out before stabbing it with my tail. I jumped off it before it could swipe me away again.

Once on its feet it crouched down and did something I totally did not see coming. I launched itself at me knocking me off my feet and through a pillar. I got up with blurred vision, by the time I recovered the grabbed me with both hands in a crushing grip. I responded by using the gun with my one free arm to blow its arm off. I took aim but it knocked the gun out of my arms and punched me to the ground.

As I tried to pick myself off the floor I felt a sudden sharp pain exploded from my stomach. I looked down and to my horror, a gigantic blade had pierced through me from behind. The blade then slowly picked me up turning me to face the praetorian. I growled at the sight of its face it then opened its mouth and got ready to fire its inner jaw. I looked around for something I could use and my eyes fell on its wrist, using my tail I sliced the tendons in his wrist.

I a fit of pain and rage he threw me to the floor hard with his tail. I vomited my acidic blood everywhere. I looked over and saw Charlotte becoming very pale as if she was becoming sick. My thoughts became clouded with rage at the thought of her dying, I hauled myself up when I caught a glimpse of the weapon. I made a leap for it, I grabbed it just as I was pulled up from my leg. The pain was unbearable but I pulled through to save Charlotte. I lifted the gun and pulled the trigger, my heart sank as nothing happened.

"Jake the gun can self-destruct if you hit the red button again." Not wasting a second I pushed it and shoved it right into the praetorians mouth. The shock of the extra weight made it drop me, as it went to touch the strange object it only got so far before a bright flash and a loud boom sound blinded and deafened me.

I looked back to see a smouldering corpse with a missing head. I had little time for victory as the rig seemed to be falling apart at the result of the explosion. My blood had sealed the hole in my stomach to prevent any more from spilling out but the pain was still very much there. Hauling myself to my feet I walked over and kneeled down to Charlotte.

She looked so pale and completely drained of energy she couldn't even talk. "Charlotte, it's me, Jake, I'm here to get you out of here but for that to happen I need you hold on to me ok." I reached down and grabbed her Icy cold hand and smiled when she squeezed it. I carefully placed her on my back and walked on all fours to the elevator ignoring any pain.

The rig continued to fall apart around me but I finally made it to the elevator, which had no elevators. "Are you kidding me?" I hoised Charlotte off my back and onto my chest as I began climbing. I smiled when she wrapped herself around me but for insurance, I held onto her with one arm. The constant shaking and falling objects didn't make it easy but I finally got to the top. "'Huff huff' It's ok Charlotte were almost there." I placed her on my back and activated a beacon on my vest as I walked outside.

The rig was on fire as everything burned around it mostly the chimneys. The dropship came into view landing not to far away from me, my vision began to blur as two figures came running at me. I couldn't keep myself up and I fell to the ground blacking out only after seeing two people drag Charlotte and Me to the ship.

Uhhh...I opened my eyes to see I was on the dropship with a lot of bandages covering my chest. I looked to my left to see Charlotte in a bed across from me, and to my right was Kayleb, Ruby and the other guy.

"Guys?" They looked straight at me for a moment before rushing to me.

"JAKE!" They wrapped their arms around me making me wince at the pain. "Oh sorry about that man, it's just good to see you again, no matter what you look like." My smile dropped at that. "Because looking like this makes you look so much cooler." I laughed with Kayleb as I turned to Charlotte, who was still asleep with that other guy looking at her.

"Excuse me but I don't think we met properly." He turned to me and smirked.

"My names Michael Louis, I'm the secondary leader of the group, the smartest one here based on our previous actions and boyfriend of Charlotte right here.

AN: What have I done. Anyway, this was chapter 26 I'd like to thank everyone who's favourited, followed and review on this so far you have no Idea how much it means to me. I'll see ya soon.